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	'<{title}>' => 'Yet another flat tire',
	'takedown' => '2017-11-01',
	'<{body}>' => <<<END
<img src="/img/CC_BY-SA_4.0/y.st./weblog/2019/03/13.jpg" alt="A hallway bridges the clinic&apos;s halves across the street" class="framed-centred-image" width="649" height="480"/>
<section id="clinic">
	<h2>Trip to the clinic</h2>
	<p>
		My bike got me to Eugene, but then the back tire went flat.
		This again?
		Joy.
		I figured I was most of the way to the clinic though, given that I&apos;d already made from my own city to this one, so I decided to press forward on foot.
		The alternative would have been to walk home, which I was already going to have to once I left the clinic do anyway.
		I might as well get something done while I was in town.
		Soon, I came to a bike shop.
		I knew they&apos;d almost certainly have a tire pump I could borrow.
		My tire was clearly not holding air, but if I inflated it, maybe the leak would be slow enough that I could make it to my destination, then make it home.
		However, I was too nervous to ask.
		So I pressed onward, and walked to the clinic.
		The directions I had on hand seemed to be a bit off.
		They told me to turn down a street I never found, but when I didn&apos;t turn, I found I was able to skip a bunch of other terns as well.
		The final street I needed to make it to intersected the one I was on.
		So why did the directions tell me to make a bunch of unnecessary turns?
	</p>
	<p>
		At the clinic, I got registered for the nutrition course.
		This should be informative.
		It starts on the twenty-fifth of next month and all the lessons are on Thursdays, but they didn&apos;t tell me what time to be there.
		Instead, they said they&apos;d send me a schedule via post.
		If they&apos;d had the schedule available, they could have saved paper and postage.
		I had my planner on hand, and I was planning to jot it down before leaving.
		Another thing I planned to do was ask if they offered $a[laser] hair removal there.
		That wasn&apos;t why I was at that particular clinic, but if they offered it, finding a clinic offering that service would be one more thing checked off my to-do list.
		Unfortunately, I was distracted by my flat tire.
		I was wondering if I&apos;d even make it home in time to finish up the coursework due today.
		So I forgot to ask about hair removal.
	</p>
	<p>
		As I walked, I thought about the bike shop.
		They <strong>*had*</strong> to have a tire pump, right?
		Then it struck me: they had a sign out front advertising that they were renting bicycles.
		I just needed to ask if they rented out tire pumps!
		Most likely, they wouldn&apos;t, but by asking, I&apos;d be showing that I wasn&apos;t just asking them to do a favour to some random stranger.
		And I was certainly willing to pay for the privilege of not walking home if they did let me rent one.
		But if they didn&apos;t have rentals, I would feel much less awkward asking to borrow one, as I&apos;d already tried to pay them for use of it.
		It was a good thing I&apos;d passed them by on my way there, too.
		I wouldn&apos;t want the tire going flat again while I was in the clinic, and I&apos;d feel even more awkward about trying to borrow the pump twice.
		I needed my one shot with the pump to be just before the longest leg of my journey: the one between cities.
		I needed to make the most of that air.
	</p>
	<p>
		Thankfully, the shop did have some tire pumps to lend me, and as expected, they didn&apos;t offer rentals.
		That saved me a lot of time, and probably saved me a blister or two.
		I bike twenty-six kilometres every Thursday, so I&apos;ve got the leg stamina to keep going for quite a while.
		I can walk far too thanks to the leg strength I&apos;ve built up biking, but my feet don&apos;t hold out as well as my legs.
		They blister up if I have to walk too far at once.
	</p>
</section>
<section id="drudgery">
	<h2>Drudgery</h2>
	<p>
		My discussion posts for the day:
	</p>
	<blockquote>
		<p>
			You bring up a good point about employers wanting employees with experience.
			However, if they all want you to have experience before you get there, how are you supposed to get the experience to begin with?
			It reminds me of a credit card I was denied once.
			They denied it to me on the grounds that I didn&apos;t have much credit history yet.
			But if I couldn&apos;t get a credit card, how was I supposed to start building a credit history to begin with?
			At least with Joomla! experience though, it&apos;s something you could get on your own time.
			You just won&apos;t have the same use cases as if you used it in a business, so you might not have quite the experience thy want you to have.
			Still, you&apos;d know how to work Joomla!, and that&apos;s probably the most important part.
		</p>
	</blockquote>
	<blockquote>
		<p>
			I believe we&apos;re reach the point at which we&apos;ll build machines that show compassion.
			As for giving birth, we can give birth only to other humans, and we&apos;ve already got self-replicating machines.
			Machines can &quot;give birth&quot; to their own kind just fine.
			As for your challenging a machine to be human, that&apos;d be like me challenging you to be a dolphin.
			You can&apos;t be what you&apos;re not, and neither can a machine.
			I said machines can out-perform us, and will eventually be able to out-perform us at everything, but &quot;being something&quot; is another matter.
			Being and performing are two very different feats.
		</p>
	</blockquote>
	<blockquote>
		<p>
			I disagree that understanding artificial neurons requires understanding their biological counterparts first.
			I understood the material enough this week that I get how artificial neurons work (at least to an extent; I wouldn&apos;t know how to actually implement neural network software), but I still don&apos;t get how biological neurons work.
			The material this week tried to explain it, but it raised more questions than it provided answers for.
		</p>
	</blockquote>
	<p>
		As a last-minute thought, I decided to get skeletal pages set up for at the courses I plan to take up through the currently-available academic calendar.
		By this point, I was <strong>*way*</strong> out of time though, and still hadn&apos;t quite finished even the base website update that was due tonight.
		My coursework was handed in, but there was much to finalise on my website.
		I got the work done on updating the site to use the current information I have in predicting what courses I&apos;ll take instead of the naïve plan I&apos;d made near the beginning of my journey through this university, but the more I worked on the update, the more I got overwhelmed.
		There really was no time for this.
		I ended up finishing the part relating to the overall plan, but not the parts relating to individual courses and the dates in which I hope to schedule them.
		In the end, I decided it&apos;d be a better idea to wait on that.
		Officially, the plan is to get the rest of what I can do for the time being during the break between terms.
		Honestly, that&apos;d be the best time to have the update go live.
		However, there&apos;s a good chance I&apos;ll have time to complete this during my $a[EUGLUG] meeting, after I&apos;ve done the grading for the week.
		I can&apos;t exactly study at the meetings, as it&apos;s too difficult to concentrate there, but I should be able to finish the grading and get the update I want done completed.
		I&apos;ve got some other updating I want to get done in regards to course-related data, so hopefully I&apos;ll be able to get that done as well, though I&apos;m not getting my hopes too far up on that front.
	</p>
</section>
END
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